Quotes about cat
cat comfort old-woman
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. Ursula K. Le Guin
cat should-have gardening
There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. Vita Sackville-West
cat waiting-rooms vets
After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat. Sarah Dessen
cat trying energy
I can't have cats around me because they try to steal my energy. Roseanne Barr
cat past quiet
I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. Rod McKuen
cat wrestling self
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred. Robin McKinley
cat past talking
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, Robert Lowell
cat people contentment
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate. Roger Caras
cat vision noses
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.
cat heart blood
We are the ones who have high blood pressure, ulcers, and heart attacks, not cats.
cat loss egypt
In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.
cat long episodes
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
cat underestimate humans
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.
cat feel-good way
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.
cat animal might
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. William E. Conway, Jr.
cat new-orleans play
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. Wendell Pierce
cat thinking years
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years. Young Jeezy
cat made wanted
I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
cat ghetto games
My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.
catholic introducing figures
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? Yann Martel
cat play trying
You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it. Wynton Marsalis
cat thinking long
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. Robert Moog
catalyst-for-change guy catalyst
You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy. Robert Griffin III
catholic church theology
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. Robert H. Schuller
catholic saint saws
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly. Robert Duvall
catholic ego temptation
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question. Richard Rohr
cat grandmother aunt
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way? Richard Land
cat eye dark
Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. Tamora Pierce
cat nine dies
Like a cat I have nine times to die. Sylvia Plath
cat nine thirty
And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.
cat animal men
Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . . Swami Vivekananda
catholicism survived huge
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. Samantha Morton
catalyst terrorist standing
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment. Samantha Power